Through AFP
VIENNA: Probably the most primary backers of “Corsage”, an award-winning Austrian movie bidding for Oscars glory, on Sunday distanced itself from one its primary actors after he was once charged with possessing kid pornography.
State tv channel ORF mentioned it could neither produce nor broadcast movies by way of Florian Teichtmeister, who performs the Emperor Franz-Joseph within the film.
“Corsage”, in regards to the Nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth and her turbulent marriage to the emperor, has already gained a number of awards at global movie gala’s and has been a field workplace luck.
It is among the 15 productions into consideration for the Academy Award for absolute best global function movie.
However on Friday a attorney for 43-year-old Teichtmeister introduced that he were charged and that his shopper can be pleading accountable at his trial in February.
Austria’s cinematography affiliation, which had put “Corsage” up for its Oscar candidacy, mentioned it could stand by way of that call, arguing that folks had to distinguish between the movie and the actor.
The movie’s director and screenwriter Marie Kreutzer mentioned she was once “saddened and offended {that a} feminist movie… must be so sullied and broken by way of the terrible movements of a unmarried particular person.”
The Oscars jury will slender the 15-strong record down to 5 ahead of the rite on March 12.
Austria’s nationwide theatre, the Burgtheater, introduced it had fired Teichtmeister with rapid impact.
VIENNA: Probably the most primary backers of “Corsage”, an award-winning Austrian movie bidding for Oscars glory, on Sunday distanced itself from one its primary actors after he was once charged with possessing kid pornography.
State tv channel ORF mentioned it could neither produce nor broadcast movies by way of Florian Teichtmeister, who performs the Emperor Franz-Joseph within the film.
“Corsage”, in regards to the Nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth and her turbulent marriage to the emperor, has already gained a number of awards at global movie gala’s and has been a field workplace luck.
It is among the 15 productions into consideration for the Academy Award for absolute best global function movie.
However on Friday a attorney for 43-year-old Teichtmeister introduced that he were charged and that his shopper can be pleading accountable at his trial in February.
Austria’s cinematography affiliation, which had put “Corsage” up for its Oscar candidacy, mentioned it could stand by way of that call, arguing that folks had to distinguish between the movie and the actor.
The movie’s director and screenwriter Marie Kreutzer mentioned she was once “saddened and offended {that a} feminist movie… must be so sullied and broken by way of the terrible movements of a unmarried particular person.”
The Oscars jury will slender the 15-strong record down to 5 ahead of the rite on March 12.
Austria’s nationwide theatre, the Burgtheater, introduced it had fired Teichtmeister with rapid impact.
